A brawl between students at Hoover High School in Glendale on Wednesday resulted in the campus and two other nearby schools to be placed under lockdown and brought around two dozen police officers to the area.
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👓 Here are the Best Events in Pasadena on Saturday! | Pasadena Now
Events on October 13, 2018 Saturday, October 13, 2018 Time: 8:00 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. Black Public Theology and Race In America click for more information » Fuller Seminary’s William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies will host a public symposium on
👓 Google hopes Pixel 3 razzle-dazzle will blind you to its privacy problems | CNET
The search giant's reputation for security has taken a beating.
👓 AMC's MoviePass competitor has 400,000 subscribers after 14 weeks | Engadget
Looks like AMC's MoviePass competitor is doing well.
👓 Typhus Outbreak Spreads To SGV | South Pasadena, CA Patch
About 20 residents in Pasadena have been sickened with flea-borne typhus. LA health officials confirmed an outbreak Downtown as well.
👓 I Overcame Glossophobia at WordCamp Riverside | WordCamp Riverside 2018
After attending my first conference at WordCamp Orange County in 2014 and watching the volunteer speakers passion for design, business, and web development I craved sharing my own experiences, but my fear of public speaking always kept me from submitting a talk. I faced them head on at WordCamp Rive...
👓 Looking Back to Go Forward. | WordCamp Riverside 2018
It’s been a “totally” hot summer in Southern California and here in The Inland Empire, we’re super ready to celebrate getting through the heat and looking forward to cooler days. We’re grateful for where we are currently and realize that we must also learn from the lessons of our past in o...
I like this theme.
I also notice that the Back to the Future “date” was November 5th, so Camp is on some apropos dates…
🔖 The Useless Web
The Useless Web Button... just press it, and find where it takes you.
A rabbit hole with some much entertaining “stuff”…
👓 Webrings are Dead | Kicks Condor
Kicks Condor (kickscondor.com)This reminds me of these “useless web” sites—this being the primary one—that have managed to stay very popular. (A lot of YouTubers make videos of themselves clicking through this site and I often see kids at school using the site.) And it’s basically a webring. But it’s not a code-based...
👓 Coroner’s Report: Webrings are Dead, Part II | Brad Enslen
Brad Enslen (Brad Enslen)This is Part II of my series on the Death of Webrings. Part I is here. For this article I am going to use two examples. I want to make it clear that I am not picking on the example rings, their creators or their intended uses. I do want to point out what I see as flaws in their model that unle...
🔖 Collaborative Workshop for Women in Mathematical Biology | IPAM
June 17-21, 2019
This workshop will tackle a variety of biological and medical questions using mathematical models to understand complex system dynamics. Working in collaborative teams of 6, each with a senior research mentor, participants will spend a week making significant progress with a research project and foster innovation in the application of mathematical, statistical, and computational methods in the resolution of problems in the biosciences. By matching senior research mentors with junior mathematicians, the workshop will expand and support the community of scholars in mathematical biosciences. In addition to the modeling goals, an aim of this workshop is to foster research collaboration among women in mathematical biology. Results from the workshop will be published in a peer-reviewed volume, highlighting the contributions of the newly-formed groups. Previous workshops in this series have occurred at IMA, NIMBioS, and MBI.
This workshop will have a special format designed to facilitate effective collaborations.
- Each senior group leader will present a problem and lead a research group.
- Group leaders will work with a more junior co-leader, someone with whom they do not have a long-standing collaboration, but who has enough experience to take on a leadership role.
- Additional team members will be chosen from applicants and invitees. We anticipate a total of five or six people per group.
It is expected that each group will continue to work on their project together after the workshop, and that they will submit results to the Proceedings volume for the workshop.
The benefit of such a structured program with leaders, projects and working groups planned in advance is based on the successful WIN, Women In Numbers, conferences and is intended to provide vertically integrated mentoring: senior women will meet, mentor, and collaborate with the brightest young women in their field on a part of their research agenda of their choosing, and junior women and graduate students will develop their network of colleagues and supporters and encounter important new research areas to work in, thereby fostering a successful research career. This workshop is partially supported by NSF-HRD 1500481 – AWM ADVANCE grant.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Rebecca Segal (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Blerta Shtylla (Pomona College)
Suzanne Sindi (University of California, Merced)
👓 Why is Heidi Heitkamp voting against Kavanaugh? | Washington Post
She is the most vulnerable Senate Democrat running for reelection in November, if not the most vulnerable senator on the ballot in 2018. Her race, in a state President Trump won by 36 points, is ground zero for the argument that the drama surrounding Brett M. Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court may actually help Republicans keep control of the Senate. And yet, Sen. Heitkamp (D-N.D.) is voting against Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, a decision that thins the margin of error Republicans have to confirm Kavanaugh. That’s despite one local poll taken after Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault showing 60 percent North Dakota voters want Kavanaugh confirmed.
👓 Dishing up lies while proclaiming the love of facts, Trump and Sarah Sanders gaslight America | Washington Post
President Trump’s assault on truth — and would-be truthtellers — has hit a new low. It may not seem possible, considering that this is a president who has misled or lied to the public thousands of times.
👓 Trump’s attorney suggests he may sue the New York Times. Don’t bet on it. | Washington Post
Donald Trump has threatened to sue all of them for something they wrote or said about him. In each case, the threat proved hollow, sound and fury signifying nothing more than Trump’s peeve at a critic. Trump has sued on occasion, though far less often than he says he will.
👓 11 Warning Signs of Gaslighting | Psychology Today
Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D. (Psychology Today)Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works much better than you may think. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. It is done slowly, so the victim doesn't realize how much they've been brainwashed. For example, in the movie Gaslight (1944), a man manipulates his wife to the point where she thinks she is losing her mind.
People who gaslight typically use the following techniques:
1. They tell blatant lies.
2. They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof.
3. They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition.
4. They wear you down over time.
5. Their actions do not match their words.
6. They throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you.
7. They know confusion weakens people.
8. They project.
9. They try to align people against you.
10. They tell you or others that you are crazy.
11. They tell you everyone else is a liar.
Interesting to see that this was published on January 22, 2017, immediately after the inaugural of Donald J. Trump.